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What do you plan to use this hunting season?
I cannot WAIT for hunting season or cooler weather!!!!! The stupid and butt-hurt is FLOWING from this forum in epic proportions!!! From the mods to the peons!!! Ass-Clownery reigns!!!
What do you plan on using this hunting season? My current list in no particular order............
-TC Encore Pistol = .358 Winchester
-Remington 700 = .338 Win Mag
-Ruger SBH 10.5" Barrel = .44 Mag
-Dominator Pistol = .35 Remington
-Encore 16" Rifle = .280 Remington
-Contended Pistol = .44 Mag
-Remington 700 = .260 Remington
-Benchrest Rifle = .260 Remington
-Marlin Guide Gun = .45-70
-Ruger SBH Bisley = .480 Ruger
These are all the guns I've not taken game with and hope to do so this fall/spring if things work out.
What firearms/cartridges are you planning to utilize this hunting season? It's only a month or two away and I've been putting off working up handloads because it just too stupid hot!
Apparently effecting the emotions and brains of the good folks of this forum as well as the motivation to get out and enjoy the sport of hunting/shooting.
What do you plan on using this hunting season? My current list in no particular order............
-TC Encore Pistol = .358 Winchester
-Remington 700 = .338 Win Mag
-Ruger SBH 10.5" Barrel = .44 Mag
-Dominator Pistol = .35 Remington
-Encore 16" Rifle = .280 Remington
-Contended Pistol = .44 Mag
-Remington 700 = .260 Remington
-Benchrest Rifle = .260 Remington
-Marlin Guide Gun = .45-70
-Ruger SBH Bisley = .480 Ruger
These are all the guns I've not taken game with and hope to do so this fall/spring if things work out.
What firearms/cartridges are you planning to utilize this hunting season? It's only a month or two away and I've been putting off working up handloads because it just too stupid hot!
Apparently effecting the emotions and brains of the good folks of this forum as well as the motivation to get out and enjoy the sport of hunting/shooting.
"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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If I go to KS for deer the .300 WM Savage
.223 AR for coyotes...I have a 16" carbine that I'm switching over to either an A2 or PRS stock and a 20" upper for those across the pasture shots....
The wool sock made me laugh. Thanks. I needed that.
I'm with you. I need to work up loads for the .45-70........243 Win........and 480 Ruger........with absolutely no desire to do so in this heat.
No need for long distance with the .243 Win...........just make a heD shot the stipulation.........regardless the distance.
Sucker just keeps on working, eh?
Same case of ammo?
That was one of the most rewarding hunts of last year for me. Taking one with my 6" GP-100 and 158gr XTP bullets. Most were simple "culls". That one meant something to me.
Just plan on it running a ways with the cast. Unless you hit bone structure.
Yep... don't need to shoot a lot...just keeps killing stuff....
Although I did have a thought about using the .45-70 Marlin for deer out back of the house...probably ought to...
I've killed 2 with hard cast WGN-GC. One deer and one pig.
The deer i Ed I took out both front shoulders just below the scapula do that girl plowed her way about 40 yards with her chest on the ground, driving her back legs. No blood.
The pig pig took out both shoulder blades and the spine. Dropped right there.
Neither showed the soft tissue damage and hydrostatic shock is a fast moving, expanding , hollow point. They just plowed a caliber sized hole through the animal with minimal surrounding tissue damage. And not much blood.
That Federal is freakin due!!!
I called my gun smith and told him what I had and wanted to do. He said to torque the barrel in and finish chambering it would cost a couple hundred. I think to blue it will be another hundred. Then I gotta get some optics on it. $50 for rings. It has a base mount already attached to the Zastava action. I'll probably get some factory 140 grain Remington Core Lokts to sight it in and hunt with this year and worry about working up a load next year.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
I welcome any conversation regarding hunting/sport shooting and the common ground thereof.
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For the next year or so, I really need to focus on using what I've acquired rather than just continuing to stockpile guns and ammo and never use them.
NRA Life Member
Better than ever with new scope I bought at the end of the last season. Trigger is also tuned to "near perfection".
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
-William Blake-
Touché.
Sako in 222
Tikka T3 Lite in 7mmo8
Tikka TX Lite in 243 once I get the damn thing out of jail, save enough for a good scope and work up a load. ( Just blew the gun fund on getting my Jeep repaired :bang:)
Really would like to take a deer/rabbit with the Pre 64 Mod 70 375 H&H but I need to sort out a mount for the video camera ( I havent forgotten my promise )
Then there is the 308 and ( gasp) the 270 that should get blooded.
Glad you posted this thread up btw, Between the politics of the last election and the latest posts regarding LEO's I find myself somewhat lacking motivation to post much.
What bullets are you using? I've got all my reloading stuff in for that cartridge. Thinking of just going simple and using 300gr HP Hornady bullets.
If it ain't broke.........
I would very much like to see that.
T/C 320gr maxi ball.
90 grs Goex FFG.
That will be pretty cool.
Ruger .357
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
Science!!!
Light weight 03-A3 .30-06
Light weight M-70 .358
Mex Mauser 7x57 AI
Rem XP-100 7x57 AI
JAY
Duh, weight loss plan, remember? Drop 10#'s and hunt deer, for Science!
I have a couple of choices...either a 405 grain cast round nose flat point or some 300 grain cast hollow points..the gun likes the 405, I have to see how it performs with the lighter bullets..
So..........what's the problem?
I'm gonna use my freaking .260 Remington Benchrest rifle with 32" straight blank barrel (2.250" diabetes full length) this year for crying out loud!!
You can do it! I have faith in you!
Is it type 2 or does it have to take insulin? (I hate that autocorrect thing)
I'm cheap. I can get the 300s for the same price as heavier hard cast gas checked bullets and probably have better terminal performance running the 300s hot and fast as opposed to any slower moving WFN-GC.
Nothing I'm shooting requires the penetration of the cast.
Cheap. Easier to clean (no leading). More deader.
Win!